Buckle



Feb. ze, 1924. 1,485,119

J. R. LA VIGNE BUCKLE Filed Nov. 5, 1923 Patented F eb. 26, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATET OFFICE.

JEROME R. L VIGNE, 0F WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR T0 WATERBURY BUCKLE CO., OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

BUCKLE.

Application filed November 5, 1923. Serial No. 672,720.

T (LIZ whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, JEROME R. LA VIGNE,

a citizen of the United States, residing at vVtlaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the characters of reference 1o marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent in- Fig. 1 a View in front elevation of ay rustless buckle constructed in accordance with myinvention, shown as applied to a piece of webbing, which is partly broken away.

Fig. 2 an edge View thereof. Fig. 3 a sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 a. detached, perspective view on an enlarged scale of the wire buckle-frame. f

My invention relates to an improvement in rustless buckles of the type shown and described in United States Patent No. 847,- 811, granted March 19, 1907, on the application of Morris Peller, the object of my present invention being to produce a wireframe buckle in which the frame is utilized to grip the fixed end of the webbing, whereby an economy of time, labor and webb-ing is effected, all sewing of the webbing being eliminated.

With these ends in View, my invention consists in a wire-frame rustless-buckle having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention, as herein shown, I produce a buckle-frame from a single piece of wire bent to form a. webbingopening 5, a. continuous upper bar 6, complementary side bars 7 and a discontinuous lower bar, in which the ends of the wire terminate and which consists of two springarms 8, each terminating at its extreme end in a depending, upwardlyopening hook-likel clip 9. These two clips are located side by side and are turned forward so as to stand at right angles to the plane of the buckleframe in the center of which they are lof" l 1.a. i.. i f

cated. I A sheet-metal buckle-lever is pivotally mounted upon the upper bar 6 and consists of a finger-piece 10, a. gripping-edge 11 and hinge-fingers 12, which embrace the upper bar 6 of the frame.

In webbing my improved buckle, what is to become the fixed end 13 of the webbing 14 is inserted downwardly into the clips 9,

which are then closed upon it so as to firmly grip it about midway of its width. The f the bend 15 of the webbing, and under the gripping-edge 11 of the buckle-lever, theV bend 15 of the webbing being adjacent to the fixed end 13 thereof. Under this construction, the running portion lof the webbing is held by deflection and by its frictional contact with the said bend 15 of the webbing. By utilizing the wire-.frame for holding the fixed end of the webbing, I eliminate sew.

ing, as well as reduce the amount of webbing required.

I claim:

In a rustless buckle, the combination with a one-piece wire-framebent to form a Continuous upper bar, complementary side-bars, and a lower bar consisting of two complementary spring-arms extending in line toward each other and each terminating in a depending, upwardly-opening, web-gripping clip standing at a right angle to the plane of' the said frame; of a buckle-lever pivotally mounted upon the upper bar of the said frame in positon to deflect the running portion of the webbing substantially over the complementary spring-arms of the frame.

In testimony whereof, I have signedthis specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. Y

JEROME R. LA VIGNE. ,lVitnesses MAR'HN T. LYNN, CHESTER LITTLE. 

